p 



Palisades, the 547 



Pampas grass 138, 334 



Pamphlets, &c., received 433 



Pardee on the strawberry 193 



Pa via Califoruica 192 



Paris exhibition, notable things 



in 41 



Park in New York 142 



Parks for Philadelphia 386 



Parks versus villages 1;J3 



Parlor plants, keeping 329 



Parsley 47 



Parsons & Co.'s nurseries 242 



Patent ofiSce seeds 193 



Paulonia imperialis 194 



Pea bug and its allies 119 



leaves for soup 138 



shells for pottage 479 



Peach, culture of 501, 527 



hybridizing the 309 



the honey 486 



Peaches, early 286 



Pear, buerre capiamont 283 



millet 35 



Nantais 35, 301 



Buffum 300 



church 509 



crop 433 



Doyenn^, B'Alengon 347 



dwarfing on the Juneberry 61 



graslin 36, 37 



Huntingdon 509 



marmalade 530 



nectarine and cherry 48 



orchard 426 



parsonage 510 



Selleck 610 



Sheldon 183 



slug worm 410 



the Chancellor 155 



the largest 531 



the Niles 51 



the Reading 59 



tree, cultivation of . 63, 156, 216, 

 348 



tree oil 477 



trees, pruning of 310 



Uwchlan, or round top 36 



white Doyenn6, and its ene- 

 my 406 



wine 380 



Pears 571 



best twelve winter 92 



Duchesse D'Angouleme 183 



dwarf 307 



and cherries 293 



in New Jersey 435 



new 35 



notes on 129, 219 



the largest, of 1855 183 



the Stuy vesant 484 



transformed 160 



treatment of winter 403 



Peas, new 477 



Pelargoniums, twelve best 431 



Penn squares, destruction of . . . 243 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 ciety ... 63, 99, 148, 189, 196, 24.5, 

 294, .341, 389, 4.37, 482, 486, 572 



seedlings 340 



Pentland's new roses 2S5 



Persimmon, improved .329 



trees 92 



Perspiration of plants 280 



Petunia, imperial .382 



Pharbitis Hispida, or convolvu- 

 lus 542 



Philadelphia park, first 587 



Pholidota suaveoleus 421 



Piceas, list of hardy 227 



Pine cone, ornamental 2.35 



tribe, grafting the 282 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Pineapples in Philadelphia .... 234 



Pinus Bonthamiana 282 



densiflora 330 



massoniana 330 



list of hardy 227 



sabiniana 426 



various 228 



Pit, a cold 195 



Plain directions for draining . . . 408 

 Plant, what is a really good ? . . 46 



Plan of grounds 550 



Planting 474 



a new place 204 



and pruning 103 



good and bad 121 



theory for America 418 



Plants, color and odor of .50 



dried up 229 



half-hardy 282 



new 225, 363, 420 



Plum culture 334 



wild 335 



Podocarpus coraiana 330 



Poisoning 273 



Polygala chamara buxas 544 



Polvgonatum japonicum .331 



'Sieboldii 331 



Pomologicai Convention 476 



societies 146 



Society, American . 235, .521, 525 



Ohio 140 



Poplar, Lombardy 16, .357 



Portuguese vineyards 386 



Potatoe, the caster 94 



the greatest 2.35 



Potatoes 479 



seedling 242, 481 



Poultry exhibition at Philadel- 

 phia 51 



Prizes, London 325 



Propagating case, Waltonian . . 350 



Protection of farms _ . . 263 



Prunes, cultivation of 143 



Pruning the raspberry 186 



Pteridology 327 



Pteris argentea 257 



macrophyllus 257 



Punch a gardener 327 



Pyramus and Thisl)e ". 3S0 



Pyrethrum carueum 325 



Pyrus j aponica 330 



a 



Quaint and true 573 



Quercus gramuntia 429 



ilex 329 



R 



Rabbits and mice 289 



in winter 498 



Radish, a new 429 



Railroads in a social point of view .32 



Raspberry, cultivation of 14 



Fastolf 237 



fertilizing of 46 



Jeffrey's new 233 



pruning the 186 



red Antwerp 2.37 



support for 94 



the best varieties of . . 14, 15, 16 



the garden 425 



Rats and mice, to kill 281 



Reeves, John 327 



Resolutions Pa. Hort. Society .. 189 



Restalrig House .397 



Retinospora squarrosa .330 



Review, N. Y. Horticultural ... 188 



Rhododendron, American 428 



Belgian 227, 428 



Catawbienso 227 



Falconeri 421 



Himalayan 428 



McDowell's 12, 234 



Rhododendron ponticum 228 



Waterer's 428 



Rhododendrons 544, 545 



Rhus Osbeckii 3;50 



Ribes subvestitum 421 



Rivers, Thomas 477, 483 



dwarf cherries 234, 326 



Rochester, convention at 476 



Root grafting roses 301 



Roots 71, 398 



foreign 41 



Rose culture 50 



how to treat grafts of 64 



new 478 



root, grafting the 48, 301 



what is life without ? 235 



Roses and hail storms 383 



budding 3:?2 



moss 529 



pegged down .326 



Pentland's new 285 



prairie 5.30 



select list of 22.5 



the best 477 



two new Japan 3.30 



which are the best ? 224 



Ross, death of David 5.32 



Rural cemeteries 345, 394, 442 



taste, want of progress in . . 57 

 Rye grass, Italian 281 



Salad for the social 480 



Salt with guano 327 



Sargent, residence of H. W. .... 445 



Sarracenia Drummondii 257 



Savannah, Geo. , climate 289 



Saving leaves 195 



Saxton, C. M., & Co .300 



Scale, the apple 112 



Scientific convention 483 



cultivators 2.34 



Sea-coast, trees for 243 



Season of 1855 94 



the 97 



Seed and fish experiments .3:53 



business of the west .59 



season 191 



trade, frauds in 281 



Seedling trees 468 



.Seedlings of Pennsylvania .340 



Seeds, Australian 193 



foreign 41 , 2.''7 



from California 381 



germinating 138 



Landreth's 191 



old 329 



Patent Office 193 



Seeman's palms 531 



Sempervivum ca;spitosum 430 



Sensitive and moving plants . . . 243 



Sequoia gigantea 93 



Sexes of ferns 318 



Shalloon 544 



Sheep in Britain 429 



Slieep-shearing machine 233 



Siebold's Japan plants 466 



Sil ver maples 383 



Sliding banks, to protect 329 



Slopes, the law of 49 



Snow's verbena garden ... 191,428 



Soj a J aponira 331 



Somnauth, Temple of 91 



Sonnerila margaritacea 122 



Soup of pea leaves 1.38 



South Carolina .\griculturist .. . 340 



Spain and exhibitions 429 



Spirea Reevcsii 327 



Sports 34 



becoming permanent 4.57 



Spring 1S8 



moving 



Squash 479 



